Attention web admin – bug on the forum, marking threads as “unread” at regular intervals.

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Attention web admin – bug on the forum, marking threads as “unread” at regular intervals.

At least every week, sometimes even daily, the forum resets all the threads I have commented on recently, and marks them as “unread”. Sometimes I have to go back several pages in each section, to reopen these threads to mark them as “read” again.  

This is a pain, because I can no longer tell when someone has responded to a thread I commented on because I have all these extra threads marked as “unread” with no recent activity on them.

Please note that this is not the same as when moderators deleted spam on a thread and it gets marked as “unread” again. This is specifically ALL the threads I have commented on over the last cycle.

Anyone else that is a regular commenter noticing this too?  
 
Fernando Carreiro:

Attention web admin – bug on the forum, marking threads as “unread” at regular intervals.

At least every week, sometimes even daily, the forum resets all the threads I have commented on recently, and marks them as “unread”. Sometimes I have to go back several pages in each section, to reopen these threads to mark them as “read” again.  

This is a pain, because I can no longer tell when someone has responded to a thread I commented on because I have all these extra threads marked as “unread” with no recent activity on them.

Please note that this is not the same as when moderators deleted spam on a thread and it gets marked as “unread” again. This is specifically ALL the threads I have commented on over the last cycle.

Anyone else that is a regular commenter noticing this too?  

I am a regular reader Fernando and I must say that I haven't noticed anything similar, I am using the latest Chrome browser on Win 11 and everything seems to work smoothly.

 
I have experienced this as well. I have found that after a short while it gets corrected. Ie. I do nothing and later on the topics that are marked incorrectly as unread return to being marked as read again.
 

I do not have this issue. Analyzing the cookies, i do not think the read record is kept on the local machine. If server-side kept record maybe it is a time mismatch, especially if it magically correct itself.

Please note that this is not the same as when moderators deleted spam on a thread and it gets marked as “unread” again. This is specifically ALL the threads I have commented on over the last cycle.
This is also very annoying.
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Keith Watford #: I have experienced this as well. I have found that after a short while it gets corrected. Ie. I do nothing and later on the topics that are marked incorrectly as unread return to being marked as read again.

Thanks for that tip! I will see if it works for me.

However, it is still annoying and wish the admin would fix the issue.

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By the way, this only started after the last major website update that occurred recently.
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